
links.push(`political_philosophy_playlist',
    `https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcmaziH9sW6PFy1IiiBKOLdhifFMC2uwa')
 
<h1>Notes on the "Social and Political Philosophy" lectures</h1>

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This is a series of lectures recorded by the Rochester Institute of Techonology.
Here is the <a href="links.fetch(political_philosophy_playlist)">playlist</a>
containing all of the lectures.

<h2>Lecture 1 - Introduction</h2>

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What is philosophy (seeking clear cut answers)

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A good theory requires translation into the practical.

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Science begins where philosophy ends, that is whenever we (or possibly the
experts on a certain field) reach a consensus regarding some topic. Agreement
turns turns philosophical inquires into scientific ones. What seems here,
thought is not made explicit, is that philosophy deals with foundational issues
which, if unsolved, impede us from getting to the scientific inquires.  This, in
turn, seems to paint science as a process of refining knowledge, a second step
after the initial philosophical debate.

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The european tradition regarding the social sciences tends to be more
philosophical as evidenced by the nature of the questions they pose, which far
more fundamental and difficult to enquire in empirical fashion. On the other
hand, the american tradition seeks the exact opposite, concerning themselves we
questions that we can provide concrete answers too.

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In August Comte view, the development of human knowdledge followed a sequence of
stages (mythology, religion and metaphysics, that is, philosophy), that
eventually culminated on science. Therefore, then, all of this others manners of
dealing with knowledge should be removed in favor of science, since it was
superior. For advancing this positivist (so named because the evolution of
though is <em>positive</em>, that is, it improves), he is regarded as the father
of modern sociolory.

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Commically, though, the mere advancement of his positivist (and
anti-philosophical) view, is, paradoxically, a philosophical stance. After
all, his conclusion is not borne out of empirically acquired evidence, but
culmination of the application of reasoning, of, therefore, philosophical
method.

<h2>Lecture 2 - Plato</h2>

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In the Republic, Plato deems justice as the wishes of the stronger.
